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Home > Weight Loss News > World Hypnotism Day Celebrates the Healing Benefits of Hypnosis
World Hypnotism Day Celebrates the Healing Benefits of Hypnosis
New York, NY (PRWEB) December 30, 2005 -- On January 4th, 2006 Certified Hypnosis Practitioners from all over the world will join to together for World Hypnotism Day, a special day dedicated to educating the public, the media and their health care communities about the many benefits of working with a Certified Hypnosis Professional.
According to Michael Ellner, an internationally prominent Certified Hypnosis Practitioner and educator, "There is an urgent need for World Hypnotism Day because there are tens of millions of people who could be helped to feel better, heal faster and be more effective who are not utilizing this safe, effective and affordable approach to relieving both psychic and physical pain."
There is considerable scientific evidence that hypnosis can help reduce, even eliminate pain. "With the recent spate of bad news about pain killers," Ellner says, "one would think that hypnosis, acupuncture, chiropractic medicine, and other healing arts would take their rightful place in the anthology of pain treatment."
According to the New York Times (12/28/04), "What we find are patients debating whether to continue their pain medications. …The degree of alarm and outrage is because something that's supposed to make people safe is really putting them at risk."
However, both the media and the medical establishment have perpetuated misconceptions about the practice and nature of hypnosis. As a result, many people believe that being hypnotized means losing control when, in fact, hypnosis is about helping people take control.
New Year's Resolutions such as stopping smoking and managing weight, chronic problems like the pain of arthritis, or even pre-operative fears, can be effectively treated by self-hypnosis - with the guidance of a certified hypnosis professional.
One of Ellner's major concerns is the damage being done by self-proclaimed "experts" - a subset of MDs and PhDs, who insist that some people just "can't be hypnotized" - a notion which reflects the limitations of their own clinical inflexibility rather than the subject's ability to be hypnotized.
These so-called "experts" advise the public to seek out only those hypnotherapists who are licensed health care providers such as themselves. Just as one wouldn't expect an MD or PhD to be an expert plumber, by the same token there is no reason to believe that a licensed health care provider is an expert in hypnosis.
Ellner explains further that Certified Hypnosis professionals are not at odds with most licensed health care practitioners. "We only have a problem with that subset of MDs and PhDs who pass themselves off as experts in hypnosis and claim they are protecting the public," he says, "when in actuality, they are standing in the way of Certified Hypnosis Professionals who simply want to take their rightful place in their health care communities. Podiatrists, optometrists, midwives, chiropractors and psychologists all suffered a similar backlash and operated within the same realm of "quackery" in the recent past.
Ellner maintains his private hypnosis practice in the prestigious Metropolitan Medical Healthcare and Wellness Center in NYC. He enjoys working as part of health care and wellness teams as well as a stand alone hypnosis practitioner. Ellner will be teaching advanced hypnosis classes in Mexico, Boston, Boerne (TX), Detroit, Greater LA and New York City throughout 2006.
World Hypnotism Day was conceived and sponsored by The National Guild of Hypnotists in association with The Academy of Professional Hypnosis, The Association to Advance Ethical Hypnosis, Die Freie Gesellschaft für Hypnose e.V. (Germany), The Hypnosis Educational Council International, The Hypnosis Information Network, The International Hypnological Association, The International Medical And Dental Hypnosis Association, The National Association of Certified Hypno Counselors, The National Association of Clergy Hypnotherapists, The National Federation of Hypnotists OPEIU AFL/CIO, The National Federation of Neuro Linguistic Psychology, The Ontario Association of Hypnotherapists (Canada) and The National Council for Hypnotherapy (England).
Ellner can speak extensively about how hypnosis can help people stay focused on improving their health, lives and careers. Michael Ellner is available for interview.
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